Giannopoulou Ioanna, Tsobanoglou George O
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2nd Department of Psychiatry Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
University of Aegean, Department of Sociology, Mytilene, Greece.
Ir J Psychol Med. 2020 Sep;37(3):226-230. doi: 10.1017/ipm.2020.35. Epub 2020 May 14.
After coming out of the state debt crisis, Greece is facing yet another crisis - that of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key challenges facing the organizational structure and function of the Greek public health system in order to meet the populations' health needs are discussed. Social distancing, through imposed national lockdown very early in the pandemic, has been a key emergency public health measure that has saved lives. However, the system needs to enhance its capacity, through strengthening primary health and social support care, to be able to meet existing unmet health needs, the impact of the pandemic on mental health, as well as to tackle future new waves of outbreak. The related changes in health service provisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic call for developing new models and novel approaches for delivering effective mental health services.
走出国家债务危机后，希腊正面临另一场危机——新冠疫情危机。本文讨论了希腊公共卫生系统的组织结构和功能为满足民众健康需求所面临的关键挑战。在疫情初期通过实施全国封锁来保持社交距离，这是一项挽救生命的关键紧急公共卫生措施。然而，该系统需要通过加强初级卫生和社会支持护理来提高其能力，以便能够满足现有的未得到满足的健康需求、疫情对心理健康的影响，以及应对未来新的疫情浪潮。应对新冠疫情而在医疗服务提供方面发生的相关变化，要求开发新的模式和新颖的方法来提供有效的心理健康服务。
